Higher the IQ of Vehicles, Lower the Warranty Costs

When automobile manufacturers are compelled to launch feature-rich vehicles in record time, it leads to compressed development and testing cycles, an increase in product recalls and significantly higher warranty... costs. Business intelligence embedded in the vehicle can deliver timely information on key parameters of product development. Infosys’ experts recommend the use of telematics and on-board diagnostics to transmit near real-time information. Telematics accelerates time-to-market, reduces development costs, improves quality of the product and enhances competitiveness in terms of features.

*Reproduced with the permission of Audiodesignline.com .

Technology and Lean, a Winning Combination

Global companies that adopt Lean principles can capitalize on advanced technologies to effectively eliminate waste in their operations.

Aligning Global Sourcing with the Customer’s Goals

Flat World companies can sustain their competitiveness by evaluating global sourcing strategies with service providers. Customers and service providers need to focus on strategic imperatives across each phase of the sourcing... cycle. We examine the key priorities in procurement, transition and service delivery from the perspective of customers and service providers.

*Reproduced with the permission of Global Services.

Will your organizational knowledge retire with your workforce?

The manufacturing industry must focus on knowledge retention and sharing to deal with retirement of its knowledge workers, according to David P. Spencer, Vice President, Discrete Manufacturing, Infosys, in an article in Manufacturing Business Technology.

Infosys is Cummins' Global Preferred Vendor for IT

Cummins chose Infosys as a Global Preferred Vendor (GPV) for its expertise in IT application outsourcing, consulting and business transformation. Cummins and Infosys team will deploy IT solutions that will help Cummins grow... to more than $20 billion in revenue. This new partnership will bolster Cummins operations so it may handle the growing global demand for power technologies and components.

'Flat World enhances innovation'

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman & Chief Mentor, Infosys delivered the keynote speech at the inauguration of the Dell Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Texas, Austin.

'Outsourcing Outsourcing - The world is flatter than you think'

In September, a New York Times article described how companies like Infosys are having many American graduates fly in for six months of training in Bangalore followed by assignment options anywhere in the world, including... America. Further, AMR Research wrote about Indian companies setting up numerous near-shore delivery centers in US time-zones. There you have it - India is outsourcing outsourcing.

'The report of my death was an exaggeration'

So wrote Mark Twain after learning that a reporter was sent to investigate whether he had died. This quote came to mind upon reading the latest in a recent spate of articles predicting the decline of India as the leading global sourcing destination.

'You can't run companies the old-fashioned way anymore'

Infosys Co-Chairman Nandan Nilekani believes that globally companies are going through a new challenge. "This challenge, in some sense, is similar to what companies went through a hundred years ago. It is a combination... of demographics, emerging economies, globalization, technology, flat world and regulation. There is a fundamental change in the way companies are run today."

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